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Investigating new ways to credentialize learning

With the upcoming release of Mozilla's Open Badges framework this group is an opportunity for educators and interested parties to discuss the various ways such badges could be used in educational contexts.

Task Discussion

The session today about the MacArthur grants for badges and research was really sensational! The ideas were at least as exciting as the competition. There were at least 8 speakers plus a panel discussion.

Mozilla and MacArthur emphasized that this is an international competition.

Stages of the badges competitions $10,000 to $200,000
* Call for content
* Call for badge design (sets or systems)
* Matchmaking between content and design winners - one month of collaboration off-line and then a 2-day f2f including a pitch

Not everyone loves the idea of badges: the panel moderator summarized these objections that showed up in tweets as "trivializing education" and "a badge for everything including showing up". See #dmlbadges

Apologies for not being as active here as I intended over the last couple of weeks. I'm submitting my doctoral thesis in about 10 days time... :-/

Today (Thursday 15th September 2011) is an important day for Mozilla's Open Badges project as they're announcing, along with the MacArthur Foundation, US Dept. of Education, NASA, etc. $2 million of grants for innovation in badges. The livestream starts at 9am EDT (which is 2pm BST by my reckoning)